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Lacrosse Equipment: Equipment Overview
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Lacrosse Stick Skills: Stick Handling
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Lacrosse Tips: Basic Passing Technique
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Lacrosse Tips: How to Scoop Ground Balls
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Lacrosse Shooting: Basics of the Lacrosse Shot
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Lacrosse Face-Off: How to Take a Face-Off
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Lacrosse Tips: Catching Technique
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Lacrosse Stick Skills: Your Stick
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Lacrosse Tips: Passing on the Run
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Lacrosse Tips: Ground Balls in Traffic
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Lacrosse Moves: The Roll Dodge
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Lacrosse Defense: How to Play One-on-One Defense
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Lacrosse Goalie: Pole Position with Clock Method
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Lacrosse Drills: Four-Corner Ball Drill
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Lacrosse Moves: Changing Planes
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Lacrosse Defense: Basic Checking Explained
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Lacrosse Drills: Overhand Shooting Drill
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Lacrosse Drills: The V Cut Drill
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Lacrosse Shooting: Become an Accurate Shooter
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Coaching Lacrosse: The 2-on-2 Pick and Roll
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Coaching Lacrosse: The Basics of Team Offense
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closeLacrosse Equipment: Equipment Overview
Lacrosse can be a rough sport and requires special equipment for player safety. This video provides a complete overview of lacrosse equipment and what a boys' lacrosse player needs to wear for safety on the field.
Lacrosse Stick Skills: Stick Handling
How to hold and carry a lacrosse stick for catching, passing, and cradling is demonstrated in this video. These are some really important lacrosse stick skills for youth players.
Lacrosse Tips: Basic Passing Technique
Coach Matt Ward gives some basic lacrosse tips on how to make a good pass in this video. He demonstrates the keys to a good pass, including stepping toward your target, proper hand position, and the follow through.
Lacrosse Tips: How to Scoop Ground Balls
Learning how to scoop ground balls is another essential skill that youth lacrosse players must master. This video gives some lacrosse tips on how to scoop a lacrosse ball, explaining the proper hand and body position.
Lacrosse Shooting: Basics of the Lacrosse Shot
Coach Matt Ward breaks down the proper technique for lacrosse shooting in this video. The keys to a good, hard lacrosse shot include stepping toward the target, proper hand position to generate power, getting a good coil and shooting high to low.
Lacrosse Face-Off: How to Take a Face-Off
The basics of the lacrosse face-off are explained in this video. Proper body mechanics are demonstrated, as well as the best hand position on the stick for winning face-offs. These are great lacrosse tips for young players learning how to play lacrosse.
Lacrosse Tips: Catching Technique
The Lacrosse Tips: Catching Technique video is part of the Coaching Youth Lacrosse: Beginner & Intermediate Training Video Series. This Training Video series consists of over 50lacrosse drills, skills and tips for beginner and intermediate boys lacrosse players.
Lacrosse Stick Skills: Your Stick
Coach Matt Ward provides some great advice for young players about the two parts of a lacrosse stick: the shaft and the head. He explains how customizing your stick and learning to string your own head can both help improve your lacrosse stick skills.
Lacrosse Tips: Passing on the Run
Matt Ward has some great lacrosse tips for midfielders in this video: practice throwing passes on the run. This not only keeps the offense moving, it makes the defense work that much harder and will free up more players for open shots.
Lacrosse Tips: Ground Balls in Traffic
This video reviews the basic techniques for scooping ground balls and then goes on to demonstrate how to come up with ground balls in traffic. Very few ground balls are uncontested in lacrosse, so these are some great lacrosse tips for learning how to improve scooping.
Lacrosse Moves: The Roll Dodge
One of the best lacrosse moves for attackmen and middies is the spinning move known as the Roll Dodge. Coach Matt Ward explains and demonstrates how to pull off the perfect roll dodge in this easy-to-follow lacrosse instruction video.
Lacrosse Defense: How to Play One-on-One Defense
The basics of lacrosse defense in a one-on-one situation are covered in this video. Concepts demonstrated include proper defensive stance, stick positions, and how to make the offensive player go where you want them to.
Lacrosse Goalie: Pole Position with Clock Method
Proper pole position for the lacrosse goalie is essential for stopping shots. This video covers not only how the goalie should hold his stick, but also how to position himself, using a clock metaphor, to move with a shooter.
Lacrosse Drills: Four-Corner Ball Drill
The Lacrosse Drills: Four-Corner Ball Drill is part of the Coaching Youth Lacrosse: Beginner & Intermediate Training Video Series. This Training Video series consists of over 50lacrosse drills, skills and tips for beginner and intermediate boys lacrosse players.
Lacrosse Moves: Changing Planes
In this video, MLL star Chazz Woodson demonstrates some important lacrosse moves. He shows how an attackman can create space against a tight defender by changing planes: moving in and out and forcing the defender to commit himself.
Lacrosse Defense: Basic Checking Explained
Here is a great overview of checking in lacrosse defense. This video demonstrates legal checking such as stick checks and hand checks, and explains why slashing, cross-checking, and hits to the head are illegal in boys' lacrosse.
Lacrosse Drills: Overhand Shooting Drill
One of our favorite lacrosse drills for shooting is this gem from coach Matt Ward that promotes a high release for overhand lacrosse shots. In the video, he explains why a high release shot works so well and demonstrates a great drill to perfect it.
Lacrosse Drills: The V Cut Drill
One of the best lacrosse drills for teaching youth players how to get open for a pass is the V Cut drill. The V Cut is a simple lacrosse move that enables an offensive player to create space from a defender and get open to receive a pass.
Lacrosse Shooting: Become an Accurate Shooter
Becoming an accurate shooter in lacrosse takes proper technique and lots of dedication to practice. In this video, coach Matt Ward provides a variety of great lacrosse shooting tips about where to aim and where not to shoot the ball.
Coaching Lacrosse: The 2-on-2 Pick and Roll
Here is a simple play for a youth lacrosse team to use in a 2-on-2 situation. In the video, a coach explains how one offensive player can set a pick for a teammate, roll into a passing lane and then receive a pass for an open shot.
Coaching Lacrosse: The Basics of Team Offense
This video is part of the Coaching Youth Lacrosse: Beginner & Intermediate Training Video Series. This Training Video series consists of over 50 lacrosse drills, skills and tips for beginner and intermediate boys lacrosse players.
